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PADI Course Director - Dive Instructor & DiveMaster Training with Experience
Mark Soworka is by far the most experienced and successful PADI Course Director int he Gulf of Thailand. He has manintained the highest of success rates on PADI INstructor Exams since 1997 and has helped thousands of instructors find rewarding careers in the dive industry. It is this experience and network of successful dive instructor candidates that should influence your choice where to complete your divemaster and dive instructor internship.
Mark Soworka: “Over a decade as a PADI Course Director has given me the opportunity to meet a load of really nice people. The network that you develop after a bit of time in the dive industry spreads around the world.
Many dive shop managers, owners and course directors from Koh Tao to the Maldives, Mozambique to Cairns, have completed training and internships with me. This network of friends is why I still enjoy working in the dive industry and is the strength of our job placement programmes. My commitment to the PADI Instructor programme is not simply getting you through the PADI Instructor exam, but creating a confident and competent dive professional with real world job prospects.
In over ten years, with over 1000 instructor level certifications, I have maintained a 99% success rate on PADI instructor programmes, which must be one of the highest success rates worldwide. The real strength of my PADI instructor programmes is that they are about getting you a rewarding and successful career in the dive industry.
PADI Dive Master and PADI Instructor programmes make you a competent dive professional. Dive Careers PADI Dive Master and PADI Instructor programmes add loads of extras that help make you a successfully employed dive professional.
My dive professional programmes are the only professional dive courses in Thailand to include
• Marine Resource Management seminars and fish and coral identification dives.
As dive professionals I feel strongly that you should have a good grasp of how the marine environment works. You will be in an unique position as a dive professional to pass on strong environmental concepts to your customers. None of this is examined in the PADI Dive Master or PADI instructor programmes, but I feel it is vital information for dive professionals.
• I also include CV workshops and placement on several job forums for the dive industry. Dive Careers programmes include a commitment to helping you finding a rewarding career. Not only am I teaching you to get through a PADI Instructor exam, but I am also helping you get work in the dive industry. A Dive Careers programme is your passport to a quality education and successful career that can take you around the world.”
Mark has been diving since he was twelve years old. He has diving experience from the east coast of Australia, to Africa, South America and a few months up in the Arctic circle. Before applying for Course Director he completed almost two thousand diver level certifications and had worked as General Manager and Training manager of dive centres. This extensive diving, teaching and managing experience sets Mark apart from most PADI Course Directors. Mark Soworka has been teaching PADI IDCs on Koh Tao and Koh Samui since 1997. He is one of the most experienced Course Directors in Thailand with more than 3000 instructor level certifications.
Mark's qualifications include:
- PADI Platinum Course Director. One of Asia’s first to be awarded the Platinum Course Director, PADI’s highest Course Director recognition
- DAN Oxygen Provider Instructor Trainer
- DAN Hazardous Marine Life Injuries Instructor Trainer
- Marine Resource Management Instructor Trainer
- PADI Instructor Specialty Trainer Wreck, Enriched Air, Rebreather, Naturalist, Deep, Night, Photography, Videography, Navigator, DPV.
- PADI Equipment Specialty Instructor trainer
- Aqualung, Scubapro, Mares workshop certificates • PADI Emergency First Response and Care for Children Instructor Trainer
Mark continues to attend courses in Diving medicine, physiology, dive equipment, plus environment and ecology. Experience, knowledge and a passion for instructor level education is what you should look for choosing a Course Director.
Our internship programmes are also supervised by Master Instructor Sally Powell.
Sally Powell
 My qualifications include:
- PADI Master Instructor
- PADI Specialty Instructor in Deep Diving,Digital Underwater Photography,Wreck Diving, Underwater Navigation, Night Diving, Enriched Air Nitrox, Oxygen Provision, Search and Recovery, and Underwater Naturalist.
- Aqualung Equipment Technician
- Emergency First Response and Care For Children Instructor Trainer
- I work through Buddha View 5 Star Career Development Centre – one of the most successful and highly awarded dive centers in the world.
- I work with Mark Soworka – one of the most experienced PADI Course Directors in Asia.
- I work on Koh Tao – one of the most vibrant, well established diving destinations in the world.
- At every level of your training from basic entry level to professional level, my instruction and mentorship will be focused towards your professional goal and your career in the industry.
- Your class sizes with me will always be small, allowing you to build confidence, good diving technique, and sound diving judgement.
- I have an adaptive approach and tailor my teaching style to suit YOUR individual needs.
- I am passionate about training quality diving professionals and will always go the extra mile to mentor you throughout your training.
- My professional internships are inclusive of unlimited diving, all necessary materials and certification fees, accommodation and much more.
- Keep yourself out of the classroom as much as possible, by starting your internship online with on-line learning before you arrive.
- I offer Pro Enhancement Courses which will really allow you to stand out in the diving industry.
My story:
“When considering how to spend your day, think about being asked in years to come how you spent your life.”
“I changed my career as a graphic designer, for the good life in the tropics working a PADI scuba Instructor. Working a diving instructor has changed my life. Now my job is to train PADI Divemasters and Instructors and help other people change theirs. It is a job I don’t just enjoy; it is a job I love. I am passionate about training quality diving professionals and will always go the extra mile to mentor you throughout your training.
My life before (ground hog day) … I was a graphic designer and I did actually enjoy my job, but I left the house about 6.40am and was never home before until at least 8pm. When I would eat some dinner, watch some crap television and go to bed, so that I could start the same routine again the next day. I certainly wasn’t unhappy, I enjoyed my life on the whole, but something niggled at me. I was sure something more existed out there for me, a life free from this rut I had found myself in … this was not how I wanted to spend my life.
I went on holiday to the Maldives and spent the majority of my holiday diving. I was not new to diving, but on this holiday I realise this is what I want to do for a living. So I set off on my biggest adventure and I have never looked back.
My alarm still often wakes me at 6am, but now I awake with excitement at what the day will bring. Every day is different, I do a job that does not feel like work, and I meet new and interesting people on a daily basis. After working in Thailand, the Philippines and Europe, I have decided to base myself in Thailand, for the time being at least, it feels like home.
Train with me as a PADI Divemaster or Instructor, and join me in paradise!”
“Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn’t do than by the ones you did. So, throw off the bowlines, sail away from the safe harbor, catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore….Dream” Mark Twain
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